Category: Philadelphia

Saturday night was the 21st Annual Hair of the Dog Gala. This year’s event was definitely the best, and the party lived up to all the hype you’ve ever heard about the event and more. Dan, Rob, Buffy and Ryann all deserve a big Thank You and standing O for putting together a super party with lots to do and see.

Everyone took their dress very seriously and really looked stunning, they were hot, and happening, but I did include a few hot messes, see if you can find them.I worked ridiculously hard on this columns as it took about 15 hours to comb through the photos and find just the perfect 25 for each column; then describe them and write a column. PLEASE LIKE THE COLUMNS at Both PhillyMag and Philly.com Thanks (if you like them) Tickets range from $100 to $300 and range from GA which is still a really good deal, open bar, food, dancing, to $300 bottle service, a mini lounge area and top of the shelf food with prime rib, turkey, pasta and salad.

Thanks so much for allowing me to photograph you, sorry I do not send the photos out. If you don’t see your photo here, the next time I see you out mention that and you have a good chance of appearing in a future column. Also I will have one more column in Philly Style Magazine later this week with another 15 photos.

Saturday night’s Hair O’ The Dog Gala http://po.st/I6b18p  at Philly dot Com

The photos I place on Philly Mag were more about the gorgeous and daring dresses that some of the ladies wore;

WHO WORE IT BEST, AND WHO WAS A MESS – leave me comments. Thanks.

I’ve heard from a couple people that Sweetgreen is moving into the Rittenhouse Square area

This is an extremely sad story, and one I can relate to as someone who is constantly capturing the sights of the City from every crazy angle. A Temple University student, now identified as Rebecca “Becca” Kim, was visiting friends at the Art Institute dorms at 16th and Chestnut Streets

 The scene was very chaotic as I arrived within minutes of the women falling. I had been at 18th and Chestnut checking out a few potential stories. Traffic was backed up as it was rush hour. At first one police car was speeding down Chestnut Street at 18th where I was standing, then a volley of lights blaring was to follow. It was rush hour and it was amazing to see how the cars waiting at lights and backed up along the street found themselves moving to the side to let the officers through. I knew that since the police were making their way down Chestnut Street instead of Market, the emergency must be on Chestnut and fairly close, and since so many emergency vehicles were headed that way, my curiosity naturally took me there.

When I first arrived I wasn’t sure what had happened, nor did the small crowd on the corners. I tweeted out a photo for my followers to avoid the area as all roads were closed near the incident. Traffic was backed up in the area, and if you had been the unlucky ones to be behind this bus you weren’t going anywhere as he couldn’t make it between the fire engine and the parked car.

  It was definitely very emotional for me. I did think about not shooting

the scene anymore, but I also felt it was news and necessary. I deleted
or didn’t submit any photos I thought were inappropriate, or cropped
them down just to capture the emotion on this officers face as they
loaded Rebecca Kim into the ambulance. It was obvious to me that she had passed away.

 As they wheeled her to the ambulance you can see her left hand is up, while she was being moved to the ambulance, she was moving her body and hands, obviously in a lot of pain.

Patti LaBelle and family hosted a baby shower at Kevin Parker’s Ms. Tootsies on South Street on Sunday.

It’s her FIRST Grand Baby
and a little girl. She is over the moon in anticipation of being a grandmother.

Last month, I was bombarded with parties. I kept putting this nugget on the back burner as I said there was so much to chat about, then I didn’t want to cover it during the holidays cause 1/3 of my readers would be wrapping presents, playing with their new IPhones or shopping for bargains.

Where did that leave it, lost in my abyss. I found it. I still have fun things to say.

PHILADELPHIA STYLE celebrated its 2014 Holiday issue on Tuesday,
December 16, 2014 at The Historic Down Town Club in Philadelphia with
Sports Illustrated star, Guess model and cover star, Samantha Hoopes. 

The VIP guest list including friends, family, Philebrities and the like to the swanky soiree. Even though nearly 800 people filled the two rooms of the newly renovated event space, it was the see and be seen event of the holiday party season and if you were there then you were lucky as it was a hard to get, with minimum party crashers making it through if your name wasn’t on the list.

 Melissa Leonard,  Eliana Raggio, Jill Rizen, Alisa Martino and Michelle Ranieri

 Melissa and the OSCAR nominated Bradley Cooper in NYC.

Midora Middleton, who dances with the Philadelphia Dance Academy, captured the guests attention as she preformed a holiday number.

Samantha Hoopes and her parents, 
Theresa and Robert Hoopes

Samantha Hoopes, the latest face of Guess and newly minted star of Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Issue, talks about race cars, growing up in Doylestown, and her overnight success in the world of modeling.
Read
more at
http://phillystylemag.com/personalities/articles/how-samantha-hoopes-life-has-changed-since-being-in-the-swimsuit-issue#evVj1rcH6xTq2e2g.99

 

Midway through January and I have something to say about New Year’s Eve, I did do a fun column at Philly.com, but what I didn’t do was really give my opinion on each party. Plus having gone to 3 parties I took a lot of photos that folks wanted to see still.

Normally on New Year’s Eve Mike and I have a party at our house, invited a few friends and catching the fireworks from our balcony; this year I decided to head out to the two hottest parties I’ve heard about in the past, as well as the new party at the newly renovated Down Town Club at 6th and Chestnut.

Good Wednesday morning, which reminds me I need to return to doing #WoofWoofWednesday reports as some of you told me you like seeing the friendly pooch post, anyway what dreary day, but I hear it’s pretty and white down the shore. I’ve always liked snow at the beach. Hope you’re all well. I’m looking forward to covering the Hair of the Dog party on Saturday, it’s always a fun dance party, a cross between your high school prom, and your high school 20th reunion. This year the event is being held at the Crystal Tea Room, so I’m excited to see how they lay it out. TICKETS & INFO

Thirty-five years ago today, Carol Tamburino had a beautiful bouncing baby girl, and named her best friend….

 To me Sabrina Tamburino Thorne is the same lovely girl I met in 2008 when I covered her engagement party to Steve Thorne at the Franklin Institute. She was to become PhillyChitChat’s first “It Girl” or more accurate a friend and someone who helped me form the basis of the career that I currently enjoy, which is chronically the lives and events of Philadelphia. For that I will always be grateful. Thanks.

 

 

The International Debutante Ball is an invitation-only formal debutante ball to officially present well-connected young ladies from upper-class families to high society.I wasn’t able to attend, but the organization was nice enough to send photos over of the event. It’s such a unique, time honored tradition, I thought maybe you’d like to see what it looked like.

 Founded in 1954, it occurs every two years at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel
in New York City. Young women from around the
globe and all over the United States are brought together at the ball
and the surrounding parties, including daughters of Presidents of the
United States, diplomats, nobility, senators, ambassadors and governors.
Over the years the ball has benefited numerous charities from the
International Debutante Ball Foundation including the Soldiers’,
Sailors’, Marines’, Coast Guard and Airmen’s Club of New York, a social
club for members of the United States Armed Services.

Forty-six women of distinction from the United States and abroad made
their bows to society at the 60th Anniversary of the International
Debutante Ball, at the Waldorf Astoria.  The debutantes represented
Austria, China, England, Hong Kong, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland,
Ukraine and twelve American states.

Each debutante was accompanied by
her own escort in white tie and tails, and a military cadet in dress
uniform, who carried the flag of the country or state which she
represents. There were five sets of sisters.